Description
Reduced price due to single being vg+ / hairline marks
1994 European cd single with different cover artwork
The track Mother, from Danzig’s debut single was originally released on single in August of 1988. However it would take almost six years before a remixed version of the song became a hit on radio and earned Buzz Bin rotation on MTV after a music video incorporating live footage was created to promote the band’s new EP, Thrall-Demonsweatlive. During this time the single was reissued by American Recordings, with the remix title updated to Mother 94 on later versions. The track remains Danzig’s highest charting single. It peaked at number 17 on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and 43 on the Billboard Hot 100. In the UK, the song peaked at number 62 on the singles chart. Following the success of Mother, Glenn Danzig recalled writing the song: I remember calling Rick Rubin in the middle of the night and telling him that I wrote an incredible song—probably the best song I’d ever written. It was the song I always wanted to write. The first time we played it, people went crazy. But I never wrote that song to make it a hit—I never wrote that way, and I still don’t. I write songs so that they say something and do something, and if people like them, great—and if they don’t, they don’t. The Mother 93/94 remix included extra reverb and a minor modification to the guitar solo. The live version of Mother 93/94 included an overdubbed concert audience atop the original track. Thematically, the song is a rhetorical challenge to parents, primarily inspired by Tipper Gore who, along with the Parents Music Resource Center, introduced the Parental Advisory warning placed on albums that contain explicit content. Glenn Danzig explained further: Al Gore wanted to tell people what they could listen to and what they couldn’t…it was basically coming down to the idea that he wouldn’t let anybody record any music that he didn’t think you should be doing. There was going to be an organization that would tell you what you could and couldn’t record. And certainly if you couldn’t record it, you couldn’t put it out. It was really fascist.
Track list:
1. Mother 94
2. Mother-live
3. Mother-original version